I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
JACKIE ROBINSON
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
More Jackie Robinson Quotes
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I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.
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The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
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If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
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I know that I am a black man in a white world. I know that I never had it made.
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Are you looking for a Negro who won’t fight back?
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I’m not goin’ anywhere, I’m right here!
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Relationships may change throughout the gift of time, memories stay the same forever in my mind.
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I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.
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It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
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Life is not a spectator sport.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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